Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Pwned by the "Ownership Society" (Will Grigg)

Will Grigg on the predatory corporatist state, which had the gall to jail Joseph "Grandpa Gone Wild" Prudente for having a partially brown lawn, and the importance of peaceful cooperation to fight it off:

Here's how "justice," as our rulers pretend to understand the concept, is administered under the system of depraved corporatism that's come to be known as the "Ownership Society":

Politically favored Wall Street swindlers guilty of deliberate fraud that destroyed imponderable amounts of wealth luxuriate in additional trillions extracted, through government-sanctioned theft, from the law-abiding; meanwhile, honest people who earnestly do their best to meet their financial obligations despite being battered by successive waves of misfortune find themselves threatened with the loss of everything they cherish, beginning with their individual freedom.

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